Michael Hasselmo
Michael Hasselmo | |
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| Born | November 12, 1962 Golden Valley, (Minnesota) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Oxford |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship (1984) Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1993) Hebb Award from International Neural Network Society (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience, Psychology |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Thesis | Representation and storage of visual information in the temporal lobe. (1988) |
| Website | Website at Boston University |
Michael Hasselmo is an American neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. He is the director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience and is editor-in-chief of Hippocampus (journal). Hasselmo studies oscillatory dynamics and neuromodulatory regulation in cortical mechanisms for memory guided behavior and spatial navigation using a combination of neurophysiological and behavioral experiments in conjunction with computational modeling. In addition to his peer-reviewed publications, Hasselmo wrote the book How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory.